SIX WORD MEMOIR Capture a slice of your life in six words. Need some inspiration or examples? Check out Smith Magazines Six Word Memoirs for Teens. You may write a few six word memoirs and settle on one to be the introduction to your wiki page. Follow the directions on "How to Use This Wiki" to the right and create your own page. Post your six word memoir there. Now that we all have a basic idea of what we want our memoir to be, we can start to put it together into a slideshow. First we need to find a picture- you saw how Lane's had a picture with her memoir off to the side as well as the examples on the video we watched. Keep some things in mind while choosing your picture:
If you put text on it, will the text be visible?
The picture should be related to the theme of your memoir.
That being said, keep the picture appropriate. If you wouldn't use the picture at school, you probably shouldn't use it here.
LOOPING Looping is an excellent prewriting technique to help generate new ideas and/or clarify your thinking on an issue. First, begin with free-writing on a subject. For five minutes, let you mind wander over the topic as you keep your hand moving. Do not stop. The idea is to keep writing for the full five minutes without censoring or editing your thoughts. When the five minutes are up, read back over your writing and circle those ideas, sentences, phrases, or topics that you find interesting. Now free-write for another five minutes on those ideas. Once again go back over your writing and circle those ideas in your free-write that you find interesting. Then loop your free-writing again, focusing on those ideas. You can loop as many times as you wish, and hopefully with each free-write, you will find yourself zooming in on your topic and identifying your feelings about a particular subject. Remember: looping can be used at any point during the writing process if you find yourself stuck or in need of clarification.
Neighborhood Map Writing about place helps give your writing and your ideas weight, and associating a memory with place and perspective helps you connect with your audience. This exercise helps you explore lessons learned and ideas about family, friends, values, character, and numerous ideas associated with place memory. Start by drawing a map of your neighborhood (it can be abstract) where you point out significant events, people, traditions, or routines. Select one or more of those to explore through memoir. Does a theme emerge? Sometimes when we write about place, we discover details that support an idea we're trying to convey. Sometimes we discover the idea - what we know to be true - a lesson we learned - an element of our character.
Capture a slice of your life in six words.
Need some inspiration or examples? Check out Smith Magazines Six Word Memoirs for Teens.
You may write a few six word memoirs and settle on one to be the introduction to your wiki page. Follow the directions on "How to Use This Wiki" to the right and create your own page. Post your six word memoir there.
Now that we all have a basic idea of what we want our memoir to be, we can start to put it together into a slideshow. First we need to find a picture- you saw how Lane's had a picture with her memoir off to the side as well as the examples on the video we watched. Keep some things in mind while choosing your picture:
Looping is an excellent prewriting technique to help generate new ideas and/or clarify your thinking on an issue. First, begin with free-writing on a subject. For five minutes, let you mind wander over the topic as you keep your hand moving. Do not stop. The idea is to keep writing for the full five minutes without censoring or editing your thoughts. When the five minutes are up, read back over your writing and circle those ideas, sentences, phrases, or topics that you find interesting. Now free-write for another five minutes on those ideas. Once again go back over your writing and circle those ideas in your free-write that you find interesting. Then loop your free-writing again, focusing on those ideas. You can loop as many times as you wish, and hopefully with each free-write, you will find yourself zooming in on your topic and identifying your feelings about a particular subject. Remember: looping can be used at any point during the writing process if you find yourself stuck or in need of clarification.
Neighborhood Map
Writing about place helps give your writing and your ideas weight, and associating a memory with place and perspective helps you connect with your audience. This exercise helps you explore lessons learned and ideas about family, friends, values, character, and numerous ideas associated with place memory. Start by drawing a map of your neighborhood (it can be abstract) where you point out significant events, people, traditions, or routines. Select one or more of those to explore through memoir. Does a theme emerge? Sometimes when we write about place, we discover details that support an idea we're trying to convey. Sometimes we discover the idea - what we know to be true - a lesson we learned - an element of our character.